emerging

Your grandfather's handkerchief 
out the magician's sleeve again 

so write (right) all your teenage wrongs
down on a silver string 
and tie it around your tongue 
shivering all night long 

tearing the paper with the pen
oh, get your story straightened 
don't leave this evening open 
don't leave this evening open 

so pack all your suitcases 
and vanish in your black coat 
the parody we have left 
of what we once had 

I don't wanna speak evil on you 
do you wanna speak evil on me 
black and blue bruising, night and day
losing what I have to say to you 

and tearing the paper with the pen 
oh, get your story straightened 
don't leave this evening open 
don't leave this evening open

This Evening Open

Sugarloaf, blink again
Oh, shed your clothes and climb on in
Electric blanket, you're wrapped up tight
All the birds are blinking out of sight

What a warm, weird night
I swear I've never seen you like this, this
Oh my sweet, sweet sugarloaf
Oh my sweet, sweet

And how I trembled, how I shook
When all you said was: Jesus, boy
You fit perfect in my eyes
And all I want to see is you
Is you, is you

Because you
You sit too close, too close
You smile too wide
We pretend not to feel a pulse fizzing up inside
I'm fizzing up inside
I sit up close, real close
Pretend not to feel a pulse
Cry again, make love to your friends
This body is an animal

And you barely touch your food
Are you feeling okay?
Do you wanna talk about it?
Parse me a signal, send me a letter
We can do nothing if that feels better

But what a cold hard truth
Baby, all those times we didn't kiss, kiss
Oh my sweet, sweet sugarloaf
Oh my sweet, sweet

And how you trembled, how you shook
When all I said was: Jesus, girl
You fit perfect in my eyes 
And all I want to see is you
My sweet sugarloaf
Oh my sweet, sweet

Little heart, sink again
Just keep my coat I wrapped you in
Wires bend, they'll snap in two
All our troubles soon sink out of view

Sugarloaf (Demo)

"Breathing
How simple it is to be breathing
Through the long, dark night
While time was stealing
Steady on its bandit course
We sang winter one last lullaby

Gale-force wind
I saw you standing in a
Gale-force wind
Today we'll hold our roots
One day we'll spread our wings

And shouldering 
All of this hope for you is hard
But not as hard as you hold
Onto that life, onto that irrigation pipe
Steady vein of the land

Gale-force wind
I saw you standing in a
Gale-force wind
Today we'll hold our roots
One day we'll spread our wings

(One day we'll) spread our wings"

emerging

Mona Vasa